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Bon plan console rétro double écran : la Anbernic RG DS à 139 €

Bon plan vélo électrique : le puissant DUOTTS C29 750W à 839 € !

Forfaits eSIM pour voyager : comment choisir et utiliser le double SIM à l’étranger ?
Voyager à l’étranger sans connexion mobile fiable est devenu un vrai point de friction. Cartes, paiements, messageries et outils professionnels reposent tous sur la data. Hors Union européenne, les eSIM internationales s’imposent comme une alternative crédible au roaming, à condition de savoir comparer les offres et configurer intelligemment le double SIM. Source

Samsung One UI 8.5 : la révolution de la personnalisation

Smartphone ↔ PC : KDE Connect vs Phone Link, quel outil est le meilleur ?

Kotlin Android : réussir ses animations Material 3
Nous constatons souvent un décalage frustrant entre la maquette et le code. Le design est séduisant, mais l’application finale semble rigide. Ce problème vient généralement d’animations qui manquent de physique. Nous allons voir comment combler ce fossé. Nous appliquerons les principes Material 3 pour créer des transitions organiques, que ce soit avec les anciennes Vues ou Jetpack Compose. Source

Cosmic Princess Kaguya! plays the hits, but isn't brave enough to be a lasting classic
Since its creation, Studio Colorido has been one of the rare anime studios almost entirely focused on standalone films, putting out a run of pleasant, visually impressive pictures that largely fail to coalesce into anything particularly lasting. After adapting author Tomihiko Morimi’s Penguin Highway (probably their best film thus far), the animation house delivered a run of originals distributed on Netflix, including A Whisker Away, Drifting Home, and My Oni Girl. The studio’s latest effort for the streamer is Cosmic Princess Kaguya!, a music-focused film that mixes one of the oldest Japanese folktales—The Tale Of The Bamboo Cutter, about a princess who comes from the moon—with the contemporary, VTuber-fueled, cute-anime-girl industrial complex. It’s a strange combo, delivered in an all-out charm offensive. Ultimately, it makes for an agreeable watch that’s bolstered by fluid character animation, fantastic vocal performances, and a likable group of characters, but it also falls victim to Studio Colorido’s persistent problem: It lacks the dramatic propulsion required to fully crack through the stratosphere. The by-the-numbers opening of Cosmic Princess Kaguya! gives way to a bonkers second half that’s missing a critical piece of romantic clarity, coming so close to something otherworldly that it winds up being more frustrating than if it simply exploded on the launch pad. Cosmic Princess Kaguya! centers on chronically overscheduled high schooler Iroha Sakayori (Anna Nagase), a straight-A honor roll student who excels at everything she does. She’s popular, gets great grades, and is a skilled musician. But despite her outward composure, she’s just barely keeping it all together. She’s estranged from her mother and living alone, meaning that, on top of her studies, she works a part-time job to pay rent and save for college. Things get even more complicated when a cosmic baby suddenly materializes inside a bamboo shoot-like telephone pole (a reference to the original folktale). Iroha begrudgingly takes care of the kid, who grows up so fast that she doesn’t even have time to file a police report, and names the alien Kaguya (Yuko Natsuyoshi) after that fable’s lunar princess. Much like her namesake, Kaguya escaped the moon to live a more eventful life on Earth. Obsessed with getting the “good” ending that the original princess never had—in her story, the lunar denizens descend, defeat the humans, and take her back to the moon—the chaotic Kaguya tries to live every day to the fullest. Eventually, she teams up with Iroha to win a streamer competition that will allow both of them to play in a concert alongside the AI idol Yachiyo Runami (Saori Hayami), whom Iroha hopelessly crushes on. Despite the implicit tragedy at the heart of the source material, Cosmic Princess Kaguya! begins in a largely bubbly mood as its central pair attempt to become the biggest VTubers around (sapphic undertones and all). That high energy starts with the music, and the soundtrack of this film about e-idol culture is largely up to snuff. Smooth dance choreography and earworm melodies sell a sparkly atmosphere filled with aesthetic razzle-dazzle that will have otaku waving glowsticks for their oshi. A series of buoyant pop jams don’t quite appear often enough to call this a musical, but they’re still a worthy payoff for all the hype behind these in-universe artists, each performance further sold by impressive character animation. Kaguya is relentlessly energetic, so happy to have escaped from her birdcage that she’s all rhythmically swinging limbs and gesticulations. Meanwhile, Iroha is much more reserved, her tension and stress expressed in baggy eyes and furrowed glances at her extraterrestrial tormentor, confirming her status as a teen who probably somehow has a stomach ulcer. It’s rare for a scene to pass without at least a few impressive bits of ostentatious character animation, often in ways that skew comedic, making for plenty of moment-to-moment…

Tori Amos announces new album In Times of Dragons
Tori Amos has announced her 18th studio album, In Times of Dragons, due out May 1 via Universal/Fontana. True to form, it’s not a quiet return: the record arrives framed as a sweeping, politically charged allegory, complete with dragons, tyrants, and a familiar Amos-ian fusion of the mythic and the painfully real. In Times of Dragons follows a busy and unusually wide-ranging few years for Amos. After 2021’s Ocean to Ocean, she released Tori and the Muses, the soundtrack to her New York Times-bestselling children’s book of the same name, which earned a Grammy nomination in 2025. That project underscored her ongoing interest in mythmaking and storytelling—an impulse that now returns, sharpened and politicized, in her new studio work. In a press release, Amos describes In Times of Dragons as “a metaphorical story about the fight for Democracy over Tyranny,” positioning the album as a response to what she calls the real-time erosion of democratic structures in the U.S. The project continues her decades-long practice of turning personal, political, and spiritual upheaval into narrative song cycles—less topical commentary than symbolic confrontation. The album’s newly unveiled cover art leans into that sense of ritual and timelessness. Created in collaboration with photographer Kasia Wozniak and stylist Karen Binns, the images were produced using a vintage RA-4 photographic process, with direct paper positives shot on a large-format camera. The result is tactile and deliberate, mirroring the album’s themes of endurance, resistance, and transformation. Amos will support In Times of Dragons with a 35-date U.S. summer tour beginning in July, with stops in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville, Boston, Austin, Philadelphia, and a headlining performance at Red Rocks, among others. She’ll be joined once again by longtime collaborators Jon Evans (bass, musical director) and Ash Soan (drums), along with backing vocalists Liv Gibson, Deni Hlavinka, and Hadley Kennary. An exclusive artist pre-sale begins January 21 at 10 a.m. local time via toriamos.com, followed by a general on-sale January 23. The announcement follows a Grammy nomination for the soundtrack to Amos’ children’s book Tori and the Muses, and marks her first full-length studio album since 2021’s Ocean to Ocean. With In Times of Dragons, Amos once again reaches for myth not as escape, but as a way of naming the moment—reminding us that when the language of politics fails, symbolism still knows how to bite. See the album cover below and check out tour dates here

On Don’t Be Dumb, A$AP Rocky makes both a case and a mess

Stephen Graham goes way too far to fix a wayward youth in Heel trailer

Timothy Busfield reportedly edited out of upcoming movie You Deserve Each Other

